Recount Writing Teaching Slides (Foundation)

Teach young learners all about recount writing with this simple, student‑friendly PowerPoint designed especially for Foundation. These teaching slides introduce the purpose of recount writing and guide students through thinking, writing and drawing to retell real‑life experiences.

Students learn that a recount means to retell something that has already happened. The slides explore what students could write about things like weekend activities, playtime, sports, toys, books and outdoor fun all in clear, early‑years language.

How to Teach Recount Writing to Foundation Students

Help students understand that recount writing is simply telling others about something they did. These slides break the process into three easy steps: Think, Write, Draw. Students practise thinking about what happened, choosing a simple sentence starter, and drawing a quick picture to match their writing.

Interactive “This or That” slides (ice cream or cake, crafts or blocks, swings or slides) help students warm up, move their bodies and start thinking about personal experiences they can write about.

With guided modelling and repeated examples, Foundation students build confidence, oral language skills and early writing fluency.

Simple steps for recount modelling:

• Think — talk about what happened (weekend, playtime, outside, sports).
• Write — choose a sentence starter like “Over the weekend I…” or “During playtime I…” and add a simple action.
• Draw — sketch a quick picture to match the sentence.
• Share — encourage students to retell their recount to a partner.

Download and Explore Recount Writing Today

Use the dropdown menu to choose between the Google Slides or PowerPoint version of this Foundation Recount Writing Teaching Slides set. It’s a simple, effective way to introduce recounts and support early writers as they learn to communicate real‑life experiences.

This resource was created by Jessie Madrigal, a teacher and Teach Starter collaborator.

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